The unemployment rate for veterans fell in November to 7.4 percent for all veterans and 11.1 percent for those who served in the Iraq and Afghanistan era. At the same time that the national unemployment rate dropped from 9 percent in October to 8.6 percent in November, the rate fell 0.4 percentage points for veterans of all generations and a full one percentage point for people who separated from the service since the 2001 terrorist attacks. more